This is an audiobook version of the paperback title published by Corwin Press.

High Expectations Teaching promises to be an important and influential book.  It reflects the shifting paradigm to defining teacher effectiveness according to the impact of the teaching on the student.  It also consolidates critical work on mindsets, effective effort, and attribution re-training, while challenging educators to critically examine fundamental assumptions about intelligence, ability, teaching, and learning.  Finally, it is unabashedly assets-based and takes an uncompromising position on educational equity.

Helping students to believe that smart is something you can get begins with the daily interactions in everyday classroom life.  Many teachers simply aren't aware of the messages, both tacit and overt, that they communicate to their students -- messages that can either boost or break down a student's confidence.  Throughout the book, Saphier offers vivid examples of how deliberate choices of teacher language can encourage healthy risk taking and greater efforts taken on the part of their students.  In particular, three essential messages must be delivered consistently in every classroom:

• What we’re doing is important.
• You can do it.
• And I’m not going to give up on you.

High Expectations Teaching provides readers with a comprehensive map of personal and institutional responses to the need to fight the bell curve of belief about ability. This is a how-to book about how to get all our students, especially our low-confidence, low-performing students, to believe in the growth mindset and acquire the tools to act on it effectively.